The truck used by a suspect who pretended to be a ride-share driver in Delaware. (Newark Police Department)

A 41-year-old man is in custody after cops in Delaware say he pretended to be a ride-share driver and sexually assaulted a woman at knifepoint.

The suspect, identified as Roberto Rodriguez, picked up the woman just after 1 a.m. on Saturday as she was walking in Newark, according to authorities. The man told her he drove for a ride-share service and offered her a lift in his GMC pick-up truck, but she had not ordered the ride.

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After she entered the vehicle, Rodriguez pulled over and threatened her with a knife as he forced her to perform a sexual act on him, according to Newark cops. He continued driving with the woman in the vehicle, but she was later able to flee, police said.

Cops released surveillance video of the pick-up truck, and said Sunday morning that Rodriguez had been apprehended. He was hit with multiple charges, including first-degree rape and possession of a deadly weapon.

Rodriguez was also charged with malicious interference with emergency communications for taking the woman’s phone to prevent her from immediately calling the police. He was ordered held on $63,000 cash bail.

Last month a woman in Maryland was also sexually assaulted by a man who pretended to be a ride-share driver, and a college student was murdered in South Carolina earlier this year after getting into a vehicle she mistakenly believed was an Uber.